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Secwe´pemc people, land, and laws = Yeri´7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25682
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Ignance, Marianne and Ignance, Ronald E.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 I1s
- Responsibility
- With contributions by Mike K. Rousseau, Nancy J. Turner, Kenneth Favrholdt, and many Secwe´pemc storytellers, past and present ; foreword by Bonnie Leonard
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- xxxv, 588 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Secwepemc
- Indigenous
- History
- British Columbia
- Abstract
- Secwe´pemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume details how a homeland has shaped Secwe´pemc existence while the Secwe´pemc have in turn shaped their homeland. Marianne and Ronald Ignace, with contributions from ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, archaeologist Mike Rousseau, and geographer Ken Favrholdt, compellingly weave together Secwe´pemc narratives about ancestors' deeds, and demonstrate how these stories are the manifestation of Indigenous laws (stsq'ey') for social and moral conduct among humans and all sentient beings on the land, and for social and political relations within the nation and with outsiders. Breathing new life into stories about past transformations, the authors place these narratives in dialogue with written historical sources, and knowledge from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, earth science, and ethnobiology. In addition to a wealth of detail about Secwe´pemc land stewardship, the social and political order, and spiritual concepts and relations embedded in the Indigenous language, the book shows how between the mid-1800s and 1920s the Secwe´pemc people resisted devastating oppression, the theft of their land, and fought to maintain political autonomy while tenaciously continuing to maintain a connection with their homeland, ancestors, and laws. An exemplary work in collaboration, Secwe´pemc People, Land, and Laws points to the ways in which Indigenous laws and traditions can guide present and future social and political process among the Secwe´pemc and with settler society. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- [English table of contents]. The time of the ancient transformers -- What archaeology tells us about the initial peopling and life of Secwepemcu´l´ecw / Mike K. Rousseau and Marianne Ignace -- The Shuswap language -- How we look(ed) after our land / with Nancy J. Turner -- Trade, travel, and transportation / Marianne Ignace and Kenneth Favrholdt -- Secwe´pemc sense of place -- The Secwe´pemc Nation and its boundaries -- How we are relatives to one another -- Secwe´pemc chiefship and political organization -- Secwe´pemc spirituality and how it was hidden in the church -- The unfolding of dispossession during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The Indian rights movement of the early twentieth century -- Stories from the past, laws and rights for the future. The sounds of Secwepemctsi´n written in the practical alphabet xxii -- Yeri´7 re sqweqwentsi´n-kt
- An opening prayer xxv-xxvi -- Re sk`ele´p ell re sqle´lten
- Story of coyote and salmon 36-38 -- Tsxli´tentem re sk`ele´p / Coyote and his hosts 63-72 -- 4. Secwepemctsi´n : The Shuswap language 121-144 -- Xelxli´p, xelxele´q
- Coyote juggle his eyes 149-152 -- Le q´7e´ses re spi´xems re nuxwnu´xwenxw
- Women's hunting long time ago 174-175 -- Secwe´pemc words for "beaver" 178 -- Secwe´pemc calendar and seasonal round based on names and activities of Skeetchestn area 196-197 -- Lilly Harry's account of annual resource gathering 198-202 -- Me7 qweqwentsi´n-kt
- A meal prayer 205-206 -- [Food division] 207-208 -- [Example of mixed economy] 211-213 -- Secwe´pemc landscape terms and lexical suffixes 237-239 -- Story of Se´sqem 241-247 -- [Song, referred to as "Secwe´pemc national anthem"] 251-252 -- [North Thompson River, place-terminology] 253-254 -- The use of directional terms in talking about the landscapes 254-259 -- [Secwe´pemc views of territory and its split up into bands] 287-288 -- Stseq.qi´qe
- Story of Balancing Rock 301-304 -- Snine7e´llcw
- Owl's nest 304-309 -- Story of Tessie 309-311 -- ["Secwe´pemc welcome song"] 318 -- Secwe´pemc kinship and in-law terms 323-325 -- Sekla´cwa7
- Story of muskrat 326-333 -- Reqets`we´ ye ell re sni´ne
- The chipmunk and owl story 333-336 -- [Account of arranged marriages, 1930s-1940s] 342-346 -- [Views on marrying white men] 348-349 -- Re sqle´lten
- Story of the salmon 349-353 -- Names and name giving 353-356 -- Re scwicwe´ye ell re skelkle´ts
- Story of ant and grasshopper 357-359 -- ["Indian courts"] 377-379 -- Pe´xwem
- Ways to heal 392-393 -- Sni´ne
- Story of owl 395-398 -- Ctsrm`
- Having a sweat 399 -- Catholic prayers in Secwepemctsi´n 411-418 -- Re q´we´ leqs ell re si´ntse7
- The priest and the altar boy 421-423 -- [The story of Petese´q] 481-483 -- Qweni´meqll
- Story of mosquito 492-496 -- Sku´7pecen
- Story of porcupine 496-500.
- ISBN
- 9780773551305
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
- Call Number
- 07.2 I1s
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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